Astronomy & Space - September 2006

2006-09-28 09:49:24 · 12 answers · asked by doorseeker 1

2006-09-28 09:45:02 · 2 answers · asked by mattied23 3

2006-09-28 09:28:13 · 12 answers · asked by harveyx01 1

2006-09-28 08:40:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-28 08:19:06 · 31 answers · asked by Miss.PatrickWhite_onFiYa 2

In another question a person asked about light bending around planets to get to us here on earth, and does that change the measurement of a light year. Well, all these intelligent (no sarcasim intended here) folks said yes, it bends around planets to get here but the speed doesn't change so on and so forth. Well, if it bends around palnets to get here, how is it we achieve a total eclipse and it gets dark? One doesn't mesh with the other in my mind so please explain how it can bend around a planet to get here, yet sometimes the planet eclipses the sun and no light gets here?

2006-09-28 07:16:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you remember that recently I asked "Why does the Shuttle roll after take off?" Several people answered and some people said it was because they were still using the old Apollo launch pads facing the wrong way. One person said this was impossible since the old Saturn Vs did it too. Well...I'm still a bit unclear myself because of two reasons:

1/ I've heard a NASA astronaut say on the web on an audio file that the reason WAS that they are still using the old Apollo pads. Unfortunately I can't find the file again!

2 I've read the NASA shuttle manual online but I can't find where it gives a really specific reason for the roll...

So my conclusion is that it is something to do with the old pads...but I still don't understand the other reasons. Why would the pilot need a ground reference anyway since they are going straight up...and I don't see why the astronauts would be pushed out of their seats...

Can anyone add anything else? I wish I'd made a note of that sound file.

2006-09-28 07:14:03 · 4 answers · asked by paulmurphy42 1

2006-09-28 06:51:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

if so then can the unit one light year be false?

2006-09-28 06:44:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-28 06:44:02 · 4 answers · asked by mapleafgal sweet an delicious 1

semi major axis of the asteriods orbit. What is the asteroids orbital period of revolution about the sun (i.e its sidereal period)?

2006-09-28 06:42:32 · 1 answers · asked by mapleafgal sweet an delicious 1

the steps you used to calculate?

2006-09-28 06:39:44 · 1 answers · asked by mapleafgal sweet an delicious 1

2006-09-28 06:37:41 · 4 answers · asked by ericarae1 2

I've heard of all the animals they sent into space, how many came back and what happened to them after?

2006-09-28 06:23:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need to know like how the the planetmight be affected and what changes whould happen right before we're sucked in does any one have any ideas or theories?

2006-09-28 06:22:08 · 15 answers · asked by brge_sweet7826 1

Would it be possible to opperate an ion engine with other gasses apart from the noble gases currently in use? Lets say for example hydrogen? and if so,what benefits dissadvantages do different gasses represent?

2006-09-28 06:18:36 · 5 answers · asked by kent_thoresen 2

2006-09-28 05:55:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does any one know what dark matter is? my teacher was talking and i wasn't listening. Thank You!

2006-09-28 05:55:06 · 9 answers · asked by Sky 1

I bent over in front of a mirror and spread my cheeks, Low and behold there was a family of aliens playing monopoly. I am scared and do not know what to do.

2006-09-28 05:52:25 · 16 answers · asked by YankyMyWanky 1

Say, pictures taken by the Voyager space probes etc ?

2006-09-28 05:29:02 · 18 answers · asked by Timbo 3

It's been on mars for a long time and I was wondering why it doesn't died. Is it solar powered? And if it's battery powered, how can it hold a charge that long?

2006-09-28 05:22:09 · 10 answers · asked by allan 1

2006-09-28 05:21:34 · 7 answers · asked by Balaji R 1

what is the reson for increse in the hight in space ? why it is incresing ? can u answer

2006-09-28 05:00:52 · 3 answers · asked by Hussin A 1

I want a telescope, should I get a refracter or a reflecter? What kind of lense should it have? Overall what kind is best for a beginner?

2006-09-28 04:57:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

The earth, the moon, the sun, the planets, millions of stars and other planets throughout the galaxy share this common shape. Why? Galaxies do not. Many other objects observed in the heavens do not. Asteroids and some of the smaller moons for example are not spherical. Why?

2006-09-28 04:24:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-28 04:23:31 · 12 answers · asked by heshan_g 2

2006-09-28 04:04:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

any ideas?

2006-09-28 03:59:39 · 14 answers · asked by billy bob-joli 1

this and other questions have been asked by my 11 yr old daughter.

2006-09-28 03:57:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've recently discovered and seen in photographs that a few rings around Saturn is actually spiral, which brings me to the big question, how were the rings formed? There are rings that are almost 25 500 km wide but only 1 km thick.

2006-09-28 03:39:48 · 8 answers · asked by JustME 1